Naomi Hill
@naomijean.bsky.social
Daughter, sister, godmother, aunty, friend and Jesus follower, wondering about the wisdom of God
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The massive surge in reported violence towards the minority #Christians in #Syria has put them back in the top ten most vulnerable groups in Open Doors’ World Watch List
#opendoors #worldwatchlist #churchnews #churchtimes
#opendoors #worldwatchlist #churchnews #churchtimes
Christians in Syria back in top-ten most vulnerable on Open Doors’ World Watch List
It ranks the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution
www.churchtimes.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The massive surge in reported violence towards the minority #Christians in #Syria has put them back in the top ten most vulnerable groups in Open Doors’ World Watch List
#opendoors #worldwatchlist #churchnews #churchtimes
#opendoors #worldwatchlist #churchnews #churchtimes
@alanlester.bsky.social dismayed to find the Telegraph and Mail are forming the opinions of parishioners and colleagues on the C of E reparations fund, apart from your helpful blog post alanlester.co.uk/blog/policy-... what else can help give the lie to their campaigning ahistorical stance?
Policy Exchange Attacks Church of England: for Overstating the Sin of Investing in Slavery?
Alan Lester The right wing think tank Policy Exchange has published a report attacking the Church of England Commissioners for planning to engage in reparative measures with an investment endowment…
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January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
@alanlester.bsky.social dismayed to find the Telegraph and Mail are forming the opinions of parishioners and colleagues on the C of E reparations fund, apart from your helpful blog post alanlester.co.uk/blog/policy-... what else can help give the lie to their campaigning ahistorical stance?
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The Times today demonstrating how our media have normalised the perverse goal of reducing immigration for its own sake as common sense.
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The Times today demonstrating how our media have normalised the perverse goal of reducing immigration for its own sake as common sense.
Saw this advertised www.kew.org/kew-gardens/... and wondered if @sathnam.bsky.social is involved, given Empireworld
THE SINGH TWINS: Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire
Exploring art, empire and the enduring significance of plants.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Saw this advertised www.kew.org/kew-gardens/... and wondered if @sathnam.bsky.social is involved, given Empireworld
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So worth your time today! I want to make this my perspective going into the new year.
Paul calls us to lead a quiet life, minding our own affairs. How does that square with waging battle in the culture wars, particularly on social media? newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/is-a-quiet...
Is a Quiet Life Consistent with the Culture Wars?
On the call to live quietly and the cultural call to constantly say something
newsletter.oalannoble.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:44 PM
So worth your time today! I want to make this my perspective going into the new year.
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Right now public money fuels private profit while people live in poor conditions. It hurts all our communities. Our report sets out a council-run alternative. Email your MP and ask them to speak about it in Parliament: https://bit.ly/4pFEXly
Tell your MP to back community-led housing in 2 minutes!
It's time to give councils what they need to lead asylum housing and invest in social homes. I’ve asked my MP to read Refugee Action’s new report and back it. Add your voice now!
act.refugee-action.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Right now public money fuels private profit while people live in poor conditions. It hurts all our communities. Our report sets out a council-run alternative. Email your MP and ask them to speak about it in Parliament: https://bit.ly/4pFEXly
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Layan Nasir, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.
Concern expressed after Israelis imprison Layan Nasir
The 25-year old Anglican Palestinian was convicted, in absentia, last month
www.churchtimes.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Layan Nasir, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.
@holland-tom.bsky.social an article I have a hunch you may enjoy www.bbc.com/future/artic...
How England misplaced its first king
In his lifetime, the first king of England was renowned throughout Europe. But over the centuries, he has been sidelined by history.
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October 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@holland-tom.bsky.social an article I have a hunch you may enjoy www.bbc.com/future/artic...
@tandhesi.bsky.social how about advocating for your colleague to work with organisations like @refugeeaction.bsky.social ?? I'd love my local MP to lead on this!
We’ve got so many real solutions for the new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to build an asylum system that works for refugees and communities.
Instead of repeating the last Government’s mistakes, we’d love her to sit down with us and hear them.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Instead of repeating the last Government’s mistakes, we’d love her to sit down with us and hear them.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Shabana Mahmood expected to unveil plans to move asylum seekers from hotels to barracks
New home secretary is expected to unveil plans to use military sites as Labour seeks to harden immigration policy
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
@tandhesi.bsky.social how about advocating for your colleague to work with organisations like @refugeeaction.bsky.social ?? I'd love my local MP to lead on this!
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Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.
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International organisations, including Christian Aid and Caritas, made a joint statement on Wednesday, decrying the restrictions place on aid delivery to Gaza, as Israeli politicians signalled their intention to occupy the territory
#gaza #israel #palestine #christianaid #caritas
#gaza #israel #palestine #christianaid #caritas
Israel’s restrictions on aid delivery criticised as it plans to occupy starving Gaza
‘Unimaginable levels of suffering’ declare foreign ministers
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August 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
International organisations, including Christian Aid and Caritas, made a joint statement on Wednesday, decrying the restrictions place on aid delivery to Gaza, as Israeli politicians signalled their intention to occupy the territory
#gaza #israel #palestine #christianaid #caritas
#gaza #israel #palestine #christianaid #caritas
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Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
August 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
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Anthony Aguilar, a retired US special forces officer working with the US & Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation tells the BBC he saw Israeli soldiers shooting at crowds of Palestinians. He’d never witnessed such brutality against an unarmed, starving population, he said.
August 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Anthony Aguilar, a retired US special forces officer working with the US & Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation tells the BBC he saw Israeli soldiers shooting at crowds of Palestinians. He’d never witnessed such brutality against an unarmed, starving population, he said.
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Two leading Israeli human rights groups, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. In reports published yesterday, the groups say Israel targetted civilians in Gaza solely because of their identity as Palestinians.
July 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Two leading Israeli human rights groups, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. In reports published yesterday, the groups say Israel targetted civilians in Gaza solely because of their identity as Palestinians.
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Three people died and ten were injured on Thursday after an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Church — the only Catholic Church in Gaza
Israeli strike on Holy Family Church in Gaza kills three and injures ten
‘Death, suffering and destruction are everywhere,’ says Cardinal
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July 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Three people died and ten were injured on Thursday after an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Church — the only Catholic Church in Gaza
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Israel’s ‘culture of impunity rewards settler violence’, bishops write
Situation in the West Bank ‘is in freefall’ warn the Bishops of Chelmsford, Gloucester, Norwich, and Southwark
Situation in the West Bank ‘is in freefall’ warn the Bishops of Chelmsford, Gloucester, Norwich, and Southwark
Israel’s ‘culture of impunity rewards settler violence’, bishops write
Situation in the West Bank ‘is in freefall’ warn the Bishops of Chelmsford, Gloucester, Norwich, and Southwark
www.churchtimes.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Israel’s ‘culture of impunity rewards settler violence’, bishops write
Situation in the West Bank ‘is in freefall’ warn the Bishops of Chelmsford, Gloucester, Norwich, and Southwark
Situation in the West Bank ‘is in freefall’ warn the Bishops of Chelmsford, Gloucester, Norwich, and Southwark
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'An unsafe and unworkable bill' - Bishop Sarah urges MPs to say no to assisted suicide today. www.churchofengland.org/media/press-...
'An unsafe and unworkable bill' - Bishop Sarah urges MPs to say no to assisted suicide | The Church of England
'This is not not about progressives v conservatives or atheism v religion - but the kind of society we want to live in'
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June 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
'An unsafe and unworkable bill' - Bishop Sarah urges MPs to say no to assisted suicide today. www.churchofengland.org/media/press-...
absolutely terrible idea from the government
Mass sites like this segregate people and destroy their well-being. They must be shut and never used again.
It's time we funded and supported councils to house people in communities, instead of funding the profits of private contractors to run asylum accommodation.
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It's time we funded and supported councils to house people in communities, instead of funding the profits of private contractors to run asylum accommodation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asylum sites to be expanded as ministers bid to end hotel use
Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to stop using taxpayer-funded hotels to house asylum seekers by 2029.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
absolutely terrible idea from the government
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Dr Francis-Dehqani said on Wednesday: “In the churches and different communities I am a part of, we are not an ‘island of strangers’. Migrants are not ‘strangers’ but friends who fully participate and contribute as we worship, serve, and live life together".
Bishop of Chelmsford criticises Starmer over ‘island of strangers’ immigration speech
‘Migrants are friends who fully participate and contribute’ to UK society, she says
www.churchtimes.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Dr Francis-Dehqani said on Wednesday: “In the churches and different communities I am a part of, we are not an ‘island of strangers’. Migrants are not ‘strangers’ but friends who fully participate and contribute as we worship, serve, and live life together".
thank you so much to @tandhesi.bsky.social for coming - it was a lovely day with so many parts of the community pulling together to bring off something wonderful! We are so grateful to have the freedom to remember and to celebrate
Lovely to come together with our local —#Slough community in Britwell, as we commemorated and celebrated VE Day 80.
#VEDay2025
We owe so much to previous generations, who made enormous sacrifices for the freedoms we enjoy today.
#VEDay2025
We owe so much to previous generations, who made enormous sacrifices for the freedoms we enjoy today.
May 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
thank you so much to @tandhesi.bsky.social for coming - it was a lovely day with so many parts of the community pulling together to bring off something wonderful! We are so grateful to have the freedom to remember and to celebrate
a tribute to Liverpool and to Jesus what more could @katewharton27.bsky.social want?!
'What’s the point of winning if I can’t be there to hug you and you and you and you?'
Jonny Rowlands was there, and writes on the meaning of Liverpool's title win.
#Liverpool #LFC #Community
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Jonny Rowlands was there, and writes on the meaning of Liverpool's title win.
#Liverpool #LFC #Community
www.seenandunseen.com/liverpools-t...
Liverpool's title win shows us that we’re built for community | Seen & Unseen
Jonathan is a theology lecturer and Liverpool FC fan.
www.seenandunseen.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
a tribute to Liverpool and to Jesus what more could @katewharton27.bsky.social want?!
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Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 67 Ukrainian priests, pastors, and monks have been killed or tortured by Russian forces, and that 640 religious sites—most of them Christian—have been destroyed since the start of the full-scale invasion.
Over 600 religious sites destroyed in Ukraine since start of Russia’s full-scale war, Zelensky says
The president said that at least 67 Ukrainian priests, pastors, and monks have been killed or tortured by Russian forces, and that 640 religious sites—most of them Christian—have been destroyed since ...
kyivindependent.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 67 Ukrainian priests, pastors, and monks have been killed or tortured by Russian forces, and that 640 religious sites—most of them Christian—have been destroyed since the start of the full-scale invasion.
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This Friday in Trafalgar Square:
The Passion of Jesus by Wintershall Play returns—a powerful retelling of the Easter story, performed live by a cast of over 100 actors and volunteers.
The Passion of Jesus by Wintershall Play returns—a powerful retelling of the Easter story, performed live by a cast of over 100 actors and volunteers.
The Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square 2025
Transport to Jerusalem as one hundred Wintershall players bring their moving portrayal of the final days of Jesus to life at the iconic Trafalgar Square.
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April 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This Friday in Trafalgar Square:
The Passion of Jesus by Wintershall Play returns—a powerful retelling of the Easter story, performed live by a cast of over 100 actors and volunteers.
The Passion of Jesus by Wintershall Play returns—a powerful retelling of the Easter story, performed live by a cast of over 100 actors and volunteers.
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I totally condemn the Israeli missile attack on the Anglican run Al Ahli hospital in Gaza in the early hours of this morning. The last functioning hospital in Gaza City, this was a place of healing and sanctuary. My Palm Sunday ‘hosanna’ is now a desperately sad and muted one. Lord, have mercy.
April 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I totally condemn the Israeli missile attack on the Anglican run Al Ahli hospital in Gaza in the early hours of this morning. The last functioning hospital in Gaza City, this was a place of healing and sanctuary. My Palm Sunday ‘hosanna’ is now a desperately sad and muted one. Lord, have mercy.